
BREAK THE SPELL
five steps to conjure a new america
radical magick released every new moon
DECEMBER MAGICK
The Winter Solstice is the midnight of the year. It is the emptiness before the next cycle of spring growth, and a natural time to look back at the past year in our life, country, and planet and ask:
Where have we been? And what is it time to release?
Join us as we BREAK THE SPELL and CAST OUT OUR SHIT.
This month’s spell will guide you through releasing an object that holds power over you. It will help you mourn, smash, burn, bury, laugh at, and say good-bye to whatever you wish to unburden on the shortest day of this year.
WHAT IS BREAK THE SPELL?
All paintings on this page by a historically significant Los Angeles artist.
As the next era begins…
As we emerge from the fires of injustice and revelation…
We stand in an American crucible, teetering on the precipice.
To survive the last four years, the last 400, we’ve found deep wellsprings of power – in ourselves, in our neighbors, in the streets, the moon, and the stars. We are ready.
Now is the time to conjure a New America.
To embody our ever-aspirational founding words.
To build community in an age lacking coherence and shared reality.
To hold generations of leadership accountable for their failure of imagination.
But first, we must dismantle longstanding systems of oppression and defeat the forces of fear sucking us into chaos.
We must break their spell... with our own magick.
Each moon cycle, we will publish a self-led experience – be it ritual, spell or other magick – with five steps designed to help you process this moment in history.
Together, we will open a channel between the personal and the political, a window into our collective experience, a door for all who wish to enter.
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BREAK THE SPELL is curated by Third Space witches Mason Flink, Lauren Ludwig, Lucile Scott, Brooke Sebold, and Sarah Sellman.
THE 2021 MAGICK
JANUARY
A Ritual to Treat the Poison
APRIL
A Ritual to Change with the Season
JULY
A Spell to Conjure a New American Flag
OCTOBER
A Ritual to Unbind an American’s Exceptionalism
FEBRUARY
A Spell to Reconstruct Reality
MAY
A Ritual to Raise Windhorse
AUGUST
A Storytelling Ritual Toward Reparation
NOVEMBER
A Spell to Unmask the Neuroqueer
MARCH
A Ritual to Express Gender
JUNE
A Ritual to Taste The Summer
SEPTEMBER
A Summoning Spell to Wield Your Own History
DECEMBER
A Spell to Cast Out Your Shit

GLOSSARY
RITUAL (n.): A ceremony employing symbols, words and actions to touch the depths betwixt and beyond the five senses.
Sentence example: A ritual can serve as an umbilical cord to healing, to change, to manifesting, to moving on.
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SPELL (n.): A tool, often based in incantation, that seeks to create a specific outcome or reality. Also known as a prayer.
Sentence example: The most famous spell of them all, Abracadabra, means “I create as I speak.”
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MAGIC (n.): Energy moved with the intention of transforming reality, often via a spell or a ritual.
Sentence example: Only magic can save us now.
In 2020, the North Node entered Cancer, signaling the start of a 2,000 year era that will be defined by either matriarchy or chaos, communal peace or tribal loathing.
A NOTE FROM THE STARS
At the outset of 2021, Jupiter and Saturn began riding conjunct through Aquarius – a planetary arrangement perfect for ushering in communal light and love.
The alignment is temporary.